Re: Will WinXP SP2 be a Automatic update

[Tom]

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message =
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> D_Milam wrote:
>=20
>>When SP2 is released will my pc automaticly be updated.=20
>>or will I have to update the "updater"=20
>=20
> It will automatically draw your attention, and you then have to =
confirm
> that you will do it from the automatic Update system. I would advise
> though not doing so unless you have a broadband connection - it is
> likely to run to around 100 MB of download. Even on Broadband I would
> get a CD, which ought to be obtainable as a free item (pay for S&H on
> order from the MSoft site as with SP1) and which we hope will be =
widely
> distributed.
>=20
> --=20
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

I'll download it when it comes around, then burn it to disk. The RC2 is =
264megs, and I downloaded that in just over 7 minutes. So, for me, =
broadband is better than trucking out to the software stores and getting =
through a magazine, or the like.

[Geoff Stewart]

Try that trick with dialup :=)
"Tom" > wrote in message
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"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
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> D_Milam wrote:
>
>>When SP2 is released will my pc automaticly be updated.
>>or will I have to update the "updater"
>
> It will automatically draw your attention, and you then have to confirm
> that you will do it from the automatic Update system. I would advise
> though not doing so unless you have a broadband connection - it is
> likely to run to around 100 MB of download. Even on Broadband I would
> get a CD, which ought to be obtainable as a free item (pay for S&H on
> order from the MSoft site as with SP1) and which we hope will be widely
> distributed.
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

I'll download it when it comes around, then burn it to disk. The RC2 is
264megs, and I downloaded that in just over 7 minutes. So, for me, broadband
is better than trucking out to the software stores and getting through a
magazine, or the like.

[Alex Nichol]

Tom wrote:

>
>I'll download it when it comes around, then burn it to disk. The RC2 is 264megs, and I downloaded that in just over 7 minutes. So, for me, broadband is better than trucking out to the software stores and getting through a magazine, or the like.

You have a very high performance broadband at that. That is ten times
the speed I got on regular 600 kbits/sec one. For anyone on lower end
broadband, I would take the hour to download the complete version; for
anyone on dial up, order a CD


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)